Blood testing tool
AssigneeARKRAY, Inc.
InventorsKonomu Hirao, Yuichiro Noda, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Takatoshi Uchigaki
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AssigneeARKRAY, Inc.
InventorsKonomu Hirao, Yuichiro Noda, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Takatoshi Uchigaki
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A blood testing tool is provided, which separates blood cells and can collect blood plasma or blood serum with a high yield. The blood testing tool includes an asymmetric porous membrane with a pore size distribution in which an average pore size varies to be reduced continuously or discontinuously in a thickness direction. The porous membrane includes a blood supply portion, a development portion, and a blood-cell blocking portion formed between the blood supply portion and the development portion and pores in the blood cell blocking portion include only pores through which blood cells cannot pass. When blood is supplied to one side with larger pores of the blood supply portion, the blood moves in a direction parallel to a surface of the porous membrane by a capillary phenomenon, but only blood plasma or blood serum moves into the development portion to develop.
A blood testing tool, comprising an asymmetric porous membrane with a pore size distribution in which an average pore size varies so that it is reduced continuously or discontinuously in a thickness direction,
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